Glad to see I'm not the only one having problems with the Dectalk PC 2! Try this. Copy the files from your original Dectalk disk into place over the existing ones. In my case, I had to rename some of them. Now, boot into DOS and have it load the Dectalk drivers. From there, reboot with a control-alt-delete. Try to bring up the dtload program with the command "./dtload -v -t" and see if it crashes. If it starts talking, then you are having the same problem I was where it only works correctly if the drivers were already loaded in DOS. BTW, you must be using Speakup CVS in order to use the Dectalk PC. You must also compile the Dectalk PC driver as a module and run it after dtload has run. This means no speech early in the boot process. You can get it fairly early via an initial RAM disk if you want. The source code for dtload is in the Speakup CVS package and may be re-compiled from there, but I found this to make no difference. If you manage to get the Dectalk PC 2 working, watch your system's clock. If it starts drifting severely, then we've found a bug specific to the Dectalk PC2. Don't waste your time with the other Dectalk PC driver. It hasn't worked correctly since kernel 2.4 first came out, and apparently is no longer maintained. Besides, even if it did work, Speakup can't use it. I've never resolved the dtload problem, but again, the card works after the drivers are loaded from DOS. The clock problem continues, and in fact, flushing speech makes sound stutter, so I suspect an interrupt issue. To really display this problem, start a streaming audio file or very long wave file. While it's playing, hold down the keypad enter key. This will make it very choppy. I am unable to contact the person who wrote this driver.